Navel infection

[zim]

I have been treating a calf for navel infection, 4 days Trivetrin and then 5 days with Lincomix 100. The calf isn't improving, I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

[chalmers]

I would contact a veterinarian immediately, the infection may have advanced from the navel and a more vigorous course of treatment may be required, or they may help you to determine what family of antibiotics this particular type of bacterial infection is susceptible too. Either way I think a prompt call to the vet is a worthwhile move.

[kato]

As your vet about Nuflor. We have found it to be better than any thing we have tried. Also keep in mind that navel infections can be very stubborn. They have a habit of coming back if you stop treatment too soon.

[bnyoung]

We used to have problems with naval infections in our calves until we started giving them 5cc's of Bio-Mycin along with their other shots within a few hours after they were born. We haven't had any problems with the infections since we started doing that about 3 yrs ago. Bio-Mycin is a long acting antibiotic so it will stay in the system over a longer period of time. As I said, we've been doing this with all of our calves for the last 3 yrs, we've not had a single naval infection since we started doing this faithfully.